GIs Bolster Bolivian Drug Force
United Press International
LA PAZ, Bolivia —
About 160 U.S. soldiers with six Black Hawk helicopters set up two camps today in Bolivia’s semi-tropical lowlands to back up police raids on cocaine factories, radio reports and police sources said.
The American soldiers, along with 80 to 100 members of a U.S.-financed Bolivian drug strike force known as the Leopards, set up bases at an abandoned coca plantation and in Trinidad, a city in eastern Bolivia thick with drug traffickers, the sources said.
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